Prevent Car Fire

Car fires often occur around us. The occurrence of fires in cars could be due to trivial technical problems due to negligence or the components of the car. The treatment is not good and just in the car also can be a trigger fires. Typically caused by fire on the car from leaking gasoline lines, short-circuit occurs (short circuit / short circuit) on the electrification car, cigarette in the car's interior fire, collision, and others.

Almost BURNING ...

Events car fire almost hit my uncle. It happened when my uncle finished off a pair of injectors in the injector rail. Usually always double-check to prevent any leakage, but must wait for all spark plugs are being removed for cleaning. Suddenly he had to move the car park soon. Spark plugs have been installed, immediately started the engine and backed the car. He forgot to double-check the installation of the injectors had since moved the parking demand.

About 1 minute later, he heard 'BLUBH "from inside the cabin. My uncle immediately open the hood, and flames visible towering over the front of the machine and immediately turn off the engine.

While some people take water and flushed the engine, but the fire still burning gasoline.Still no pressure from the Fuel Line, immediately open the petrol cap, and closed it back to lower pressure in the Fuel Line. Sure enough, directly decreases and extinguished the fire aided water spray. Gratitude is less than 60 seconds the fire goes out, after being reviewed again, no one was burned by the fire earlier. A large flame is still pure of gasoline that leaked out of the injector that did not fit the installation. What a valuable lesson for me, for more thorough, careful and thorough every time fixing things.

What if a fire broke out on the road and know it's too late .., may be destroyed in the fire engine room, it is necessary to provide fire extinguishers LIGHTER.

Here are tips to avoid light fires the car:

1. Be careful always in the works

2. Double-check the installation / installation on the car engine and electrification.

3. Always unplug the battery when doing engine repairs and electrification

4. Avoid the installation of accessories that use excessive electrical energy and is always equipped with a safety fuse.

5. Recheck the cable connections, use quality cable and adjust the size of the cable with the power to be used.

6. Be careful on the installation of additional equipment (fuel saver, magnet, etc.) on fuel lines, especially accompanied by cutting the fuel hose. Also check the hose clamps and fuel conditions.

7. Check back audio installation that uses a large power, ranging from cable to cable size and fuse size used.

8. Provide fire extinguisher (Fire Extinguisher Equipment Light / Fire Extinguisher) in an easily accessible place.

9. Opening the gas cap for a moment, can help reduce pressure on the fuel line (fuel lines).

10. Generally, the lifetime is 2-5 years of automotive fire extinguisher (see on the packaging)

11. When buying a fire extinguisher, ask the seller, date of production.

12. Typically for automotive fire extinguisher can not be at TEST, so disposable packaging sold out and discarded.

13. Always pray before doing anything.

14. Storage / Placement extinguisher should not be exposed to direct sunlight

15. In general, packaging extinguisher should not be stored more than 55 ° Celsius, to think about storage locations for each car a different construction. Taken from : http://www.saft7.com